Profile

Nance Van Winckel’s most recent book is a memoir entitled Sister Zero (Slant Books, 2022).

She’s also the author of nine books of poetry, most recently The Many Beds of Martha Washington (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, 2021); Our Foreigner, winner of the Pacific Coast Poetry Prize (Beyond Baroque Press, 2017); and Book of No Ledge (Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series, 2016). Of her five books of fiction, Ever Yrs, a scrapbook novel (Twisted Road Publications, 2014), is her most recent. She is especially interested in combining text and visual art as well as all manner of hybrid forms.

For a recent, more in-depth interview, please check out this conversation on working with images in poetry, fiction, and text art.

Her author website is: nancevanwinckel.com; her visual poetry website is photoemsbynancevanwinckel.zenfolio.com.

Education

MA - Creative Writing | University of Denver

BA | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Hasanthika Sirisena

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Bret Lott

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]

David Wojahn

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Sue William Silverman

Faculty Co-chair, MFA in Writing [CNF/hybrid forms]; Postgraduate Writers' Conference

Philip Metres

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]